CAPTCHA is not a security feature. It's a way to help avoid robots pretending to be humans. Anyone using it as a security feature is just giving more reasons for people to find ways to break them.
All in all, it's time to get rid of CAPTCHA and move on to some more logical system that would be more difficult, such as a system where users are asked to answer a simple question that contains the answer, such as:
If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961, were you alive when he was shot?
How many liters of water fit into a five-liter bottle?
What's also interesting about Mosso is their billing method being based on requests and not on the type of requests/media or demands your applying to the servers. What would cost you $1.89 a month on S3, costs you $100 on Mosso. You can easily max out your monthly request amount on Mosso with 3 small websites, so make sure you look into this factor carefully before considering their services.
Steam just added all the rockstar games to their list. I think all the GTA series is something around $29, quite a good deal I plan to pick up this coming weekend.
I'm not sure if translation is just used due to the lack of a word to describe the process. Maybe more like transcribing?
This whole process makes sense to me at least with my familiarity from browsing Chinese websites. They can 'translate' or transcribe the characters into the pinyin system of roman characters, but this in no way really explains the character or definition. It actually forces people to learn a middle language that helps make it easier to translate between the Chinese character set and the Roman character set.
As a quick example with link to graphic of Chinese characters:
So while putting in the characters with a dot com at the end makes sense to Chinese speaking individuals, it makes no sense to those that use the roman system. Thus we find websites translated to pinyin first(with the tone numbers removed).
Personally I would much rather type in Chinese characters to go to a specific Chinese website than typing in pinyin that doesn't really do the translation justice
This seems like they just added the same feature that make Del.icio.us such a popular sight. I can understand if this is sharing your pr0n folder with grandma, but if your using an RSS feed for that, than I'm just way behind the times I guess?
Maybe someone with personal experience can help explain this better than the linked articles did. Did it automatically check all your previously stored items as being shared, or does it just default share everything?
The adblock extension is just not as exciting. I prefer editing my hosts file to redirect all requests for ad servers to my localhost where I have a lovely collection of 180x60 pictures of myself. Nothing makes a webpage more readable than ad's of yourself.
It's not that they are bidding one 1 thing. This bidding/auction includes multiple licenses and different chunks of spectrum's. The 700mhz one we keep discussing is just the biggest and most coveted item at the auction. There's still going to be that small company going home with the autographed T-Shirt signed by the FCC staff.
You specifically mentioned this was a fortune 500 company, and you somehow were able to retrieve or unlock an account for the President of this said company.
That sets of a pretty big red light that either that companies IT department was functioning at extremely poor levels, or that it was a bogus story.
I wasn't trying to knock the overall point of the story, which as I said when I praised the parent comment to my original post, the obvious fact that the CIO/CTO wasn't involved etc, there are some serious flaws with that situation you described. More so, those points stick out many many times more so than the original reason you posted it. Kind of like saying "they put LSD into the fries and Arby's, but my manager on the weekend left early on Fridays and corporate never complained." Sure, leaving early is a bit odd, but odds are someone else might question something else in that story I just said.
Again I wasn't trying to call you a liar or anything. I just felt that situation was lacking some more in depth explanation as to why your handing out passwords to presidents accounts. I get the feeling you had your CIO/CTO's password at your disposal as well?
I think the problem is the story you replied to is bogus. While it made for a mildly interesting read, fortune 500 companies would call their CIO or director of IT before resorting to the generic IT helpline number.
However, a locked Active directory, and you have access to the password as a Tech support operator at your "low level" position, shows either this company was a complete failure with it's IT department, or again, bogus story. Props to my parent for calling out the good points. Wish I still had mod-points today.
They work great here in Columbus, Ohio. They only go on during heavy traffic times, and keep the flow of traffic on the highway going at a relatively quick speed. In Cleveland, where they do not have them. During a green light merge frenzy, the speed of the highway easily drops below the speed of local streets.
Everything with M$ involves a contract. Your contract for them hosting your email service should be no different and include some legal protection for you both, in case they have an outage and you try to sue them, or that you suddenly move to Google-mail. As long as you verified in the contract a length of time for this service set at price (free) and met their demands such as allowing them to scan all student emails content, I don't see any reason for this to be a considerable thing to worry about.
Where I work we use M$ for their mapping service for our store locater. I originally wanted to use google but they didn't offer a comparable solution at the time. I know our business department locked in a deal with M$ for a year and in the fine print we pay a certain amount for the service, and a certain amount for usage. They can't suddenly raise the rates on us or they are violating our agreement, and we'd jump ship to Google in a heartbeat.
This is true of lots of other types of business's as well. I work in E-Commerce, and we do weekly minor fixes, and 24 hour serious fixes. 4 weeks for a patch even for our IDE/platform/development environment would send us elsewhere immediately.
I can see 4 weeks for maybe a serious flaw in say a video game, but a month for something people are using and paying you money to use, that's just ridiculous. Just like the parent poster said, in banks they lose business the second a flaw is known to anyone, including themselves. The same could be said for a lot of business's if that flaw was exploitable in such a way.
I would like to see this idea taken to the next level and have the systems water cooled. Moving cold water from outside to inside would be a great idea. Just as long as it doesn't freeze in the lines.
I actually use a vent duct to suck in cold air from outside during the winter to help cool a server in my house. Originally I was more concerned with random object/bugs/leaves so I made it a closed system(like water cooling) to help protect the actual system. It works nicely, but only for about 1/3 or less of the year when the temperature is cold enough to make a difference.
I've always wondered about a larger scale of something like this such as how the parent suggested servers in a colder/arctic region.
They both have their strong points for different uses. As a company, or a new band, I wouldn't waste my time trying with facebook. Myspace is perfect for this type of stuff. However, trying to find my old roommate from my freshman year of college before I transfered schools, myspace would never be of any help.
When it comes to making new friends, I'm not going to go on facebook and poke every random person in my city/school/work place network. It's too creepy, plus people actually see how I might know them and such. It's more like a, "Hey I noticed you also do a lot of the same things as me, go to the same events, were at the same last 3 parties, etc." type network.
Myspace lets me just signup and meet random people from anywhere I want with unlimited freedom about how creepy or polite I want to be with no worries.
I don't understand people that post comments like this. You joined facebook, then went off to join music/piano player groups on there. Needless to say facebook doesn't work for people looking to meet 42,000 new friends that may or may not be real. That's what myspace is great at. I'm a new musician in a new city, I want to find other bands/muscians/etc, i would go to myspace and see who has a half billion friends and realize they spend more time on myfacespace then playing music, so join them and play music together. Problem solved.
As for Facebook, if you join it, to socialize with your friends, it's completely different. Make an account, find people you actually know on it, add them as friends and login maybe once a week or so. Suddenly your actually able to keep up to date on those 10-15 people without having to call them weekly to find out whats going on. Sure some people freak out about this vast amount of stuff I can find out that your doing, but I only know about it because you posted it on there for the world to see.
I rarely join the groups on facebook, and when I do, I do so with a grain of salt realizing a digital group like that that is rather pointless in the first place. However the ability to add a study group or other real life type groups and post discussions, share meeting times and plans, as well as see everyones class schedule on there. That's what makes facebook useful.
This is why we need to stop putting myspace and facebook into the same group. They really aren't as similar as people keep saying they are. Facebook is for people already with friends that want to keep in touch easier, MySpace is a network for meeting new people and getting new connections.
Try and find a place where your phone is roaming in another network, but covered by your "nation wide roaming plan". Generally your phone will show something like "Cingular network" on the phone. Make a phone call from that area during your "free nights and weekends minutes", and just leave that phone on as long as you can in that area. I actually went as far as to put my phone into a ziplock bag on vibrate and hid it in some bushes so it could sit there until the battery died. I could go daily to pick it up before work and drop it back off after work. Within 2 weeks my contract was canceled by Verizon without any termination charges.
Ever seen a tree sway in the wind during a nice summer/spring day? Put a bunch of these things on the branches, and there you go, constant swaying. Maybe even a bird will bump into it and knock some watts to your house
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no goatse, it's legit.
how many sides does your elevator contain? If it has all 6 that most do, you would probably want to be jumping up, and out.....
CAPTCHA is not a security feature. It's a way to help avoid robots pretending to be humans. Anyone using it as a security feature is just giving more reasons for people to find ways to break them.
All in all, it's time to get rid of CAPTCHA and move on to some more logical system that would be more difficult, such as a system where users are asked to answer a simple question that contains the answer, such as:
If you were born in 1973 and JFK was shot in 1961, were you alive when he was shot?
How many liters of water fit into a five-liter bottle?
What's also interesting about Mosso is their billing method being based on requests and not on the type of requests/media or demands your applying to the servers. What would cost you $1.89 a month on S3, costs you $100 on Mosso. You can easily max out your monthly request amount on Mosso with 3 small websites, so make sure you look into this factor carefully before considering their services.
Steam just added all the rockstar games to their list. I think all the GTA series is something around $29, quite a good deal I plan to pick up this coming weekend.
Yeah thats the word I was looking for. I knew it wasn't really translating or transcribing but I just couldn't remember. Thanks!
I'm not sure if translation is just used due to the lack of a word to describe the process. Maybe more like transcribing?
This whole process makes sense to me at least with my familiarity from browsing Chinese websites. They can 'translate' or transcribe the characters into the pinyin system of roman characters, but this in no way really explains the character or definition. It actually forces people to learn a middle language that helps make it easier to translate between the Chinese character set and the Roman character set.
As a quick example with link to graphic of Chinese characters:
So while putting in the characters with a dot com at the end makes sense to Chinese speaking individuals, it makes no sense to those that use the roman system. Thus we find websites translated to pinyin first(with the tone numbers removed).Personally I would much rather type in Chinese characters to go to a specific Chinese website than typing in pinyin that doesn't really do the translation justice
This seems like they just added the same feature that make Del.icio.us such a popular sight. I can understand if this is sharing your pr0n folder with grandma, but if your using an RSS feed for that, than I'm just way behind the times I guess?
Maybe someone with personal experience can help explain this better than the linked articles did. Did it automatically check all your previously stored items as being shared, or does it just default share everything?
The adblock extension is just not as exciting. I prefer editing my hosts file to redirect all requests for ad servers to my localhost where I have a lovely collection of 180x60 pictures of myself. Nothing makes a webpage more readable than ad's of yourself.
It's not that they are bidding one 1 thing. This bidding/auction includes multiple licenses and different chunks of spectrum's. The 700mhz one we keep discussing is just the biggest and most coveted item at the auction. There's still going to be that small company going home with the autographed T-Shirt signed by the FCC staff.
You specifically mentioned this was a fortune 500 company, and you somehow were able to retrieve or unlock an account for the President of this said company.
That sets of a pretty big red light that either that companies IT department was functioning at extremely poor levels, or that it was a bogus story.
I wasn't trying to knock the overall point of the story, which as I said when I praised the parent comment to my original post, the obvious fact that the CIO/CTO wasn't involved etc, there are some serious flaws with that situation you described. More so, those points stick out many many times more so than the original reason you posted it. Kind of like saying "they put LSD into the fries and Arby's, but my manager on the weekend left early on Fridays and corporate never complained." Sure, leaving early is a bit odd, but odds are someone else might question something else in that story I just said.
Again I wasn't trying to call you a liar or anything. I just felt that situation was lacking some more in depth explanation as to why your handing out passwords to presidents accounts. I get the feeling you had your CIO/CTO's password at your disposal as well?
I think the problem is the story you replied to is bogus. While it made for a mildly interesting read, fortune 500 companies would call their CIO or director of IT before resorting to the generic IT helpline number.
However, a locked Active directory, and you have access to the password as a Tech support operator at your "low level" position, shows either this company was a complete failure with it's IT department, or again, bogus story. Props to my parent for calling out the good points. Wish I still had mod-points today.
They work great here in Columbus, Ohio. They only go on during heavy traffic times, and keep the flow of traffic on the highway going at a relatively quick speed. In Cleveland, where they do not have them. During a green light merge frenzy, the speed of the highway easily drops below the speed of local streets.
Everything with M$ involves a contract. Your contract for them hosting your email service should be no different and include some legal protection for you both, in case they have an outage and you try to sue them, or that you suddenly move to Google-mail. As long as you verified in the contract a length of time for this service set at price (free) and met their demands such as allowing them to scan all student emails content, I don't see any reason for this to be a considerable thing to worry about.
Where I work we use M$ for their mapping service for our store locater. I originally wanted to use google but they didn't offer a comparable solution at the time. I know our business department locked in a deal with M$ for a year and in the fine print we pay a certain amount for the service, and a certain amount for usage. They can't suddenly raise the rates on us or they are violating our agreement, and we'd jump ship to Google in a heartbeat.
Nicely worded. Too bad my last mod point expired over the long weekend.
This is true of lots of other types of business's as well. I work in E-Commerce, and we do weekly minor fixes, and 24 hour serious fixes. 4 weeks for a patch even for our IDE/platform/development environment would send us elsewhere immediately. I can see 4 weeks for maybe a serious flaw in say a video game, but a month for something people are using and paying you money to use, that's just ridiculous. Just like the parent poster said, in banks they lose business the second a flaw is known to anyone, including themselves. The same could be said for a lot of business's if that flaw was exploitable in such a way.
I would like to see this idea taken to the next level and have the systems water cooled. Moving cold water from outside to inside would be a great idea. Just as long as it doesn't freeze in the lines.
I actually use a vent duct to suck in cold air from outside during the winter to help cool a server in my house. Originally I was more concerned with random object/bugs/leaves so I made it a closed system(like water cooling) to help protect the actual system. It works nicely, but only for about 1/3 or less of the year when the temperature is cold enough to make a difference. I've always wondered about a larger scale of something like this such as how the parent suggested servers in a colder/arctic region.
Bungie is no longer part of Microsoft.
They both have their strong points for different uses. As a company, or a new band, I wouldn't waste my time trying with facebook. Myspace is perfect for this type of stuff. However, trying to find my old roommate from my freshman year of college before I transfered schools, myspace would never be of any help.
When it comes to making new friends, I'm not going to go on facebook and poke every random person in my city/school/work place network. It's too creepy, plus people actually see how I might know them and such. It's more like a, "Hey I noticed you also do a lot of the same things as me, go to the same events, were at the same last 3 parties, etc." type network.
Myspace lets me just signup and meet random people from anywhere I want with unlimited freedom about how creepy or polite I want to be with no worries.
I don't understand people that post comments like this. You joined facebook, then went off to join music/piano player groups on there. Needless to say facebook doesn't work for people looking to meet 42,000 new friends that may or may not be real. That's what myspace is great at. I'm a new musician in a new city, I want to find other bands/muscians/etc, i would go to myspace and see who has a half billion friends and realize they spend more time on myfacespace then playing music, so join them and play music together. Problem solved.
As for Facebook, if you join it, to socialize with your friends, it's completely different. Make an account, find people you actually know on it, add them as friends and login maybe once a week or so. Suddenly your actually able to keep up to date on those 10-15 people without having to call them weekly to find out whats going on. Sure some people freak out about this vast amount of stuff I can find out that your doing, but I only know about it because you posted it on there for the world to see.
I rarely join the groups on facebook, and when I do, I do so with a grain of salt realizing a digital group like that that is rather pointless in the first place. However the ability to add a study group or other real life type groups and post discussions, share meeting times and plans, as well as see everyones class schedule on there. That's what makes facebook useful.
This is why we need to stop putting myspace and facebook into the same group. They really aren't as similar as people keep saying they are. Facebook is for people already with friends that want to keep in touch easier, MySpace is a network for meeting new people and getting new connections.
Cars driving themselves.
Try and find a place where your phone is roaming in another network, but covered by your "nation wide roaming plan". Generally your phone will show something like "Cingular network" on the phone. Make a phone call from that area during your "free nights and weekends minutes", and just leave that phone on as long as you can in that area. I actually went as far as to put my phone into a ziplock bag on vibrate and hid it in some bushes so it could sit there until the battery died. I could go daily to pick it up before work and drop it back off after work. Within 2 weeks my contract was canceled by Verizon without any termination charges.
Feel free to pass me your codes for the new copies then. I have neither but wouldn't mind giving it a run through.
Ever seen a tree sway in the wind during a nice summer/spring day? Put a bunch of these things on the branches, and there you go, constant swaying. Maybe even a bird will bump into it and knock some watts to your house